[John Williamson]

On 31/01/2017 07:21, Trevor wrote:

Yes sad to think how little care was put into the original CD issues
considering how long Beatles fans had already waited for them, and how
many were likely to be sold, and were.

Trevor.


I suspect the marketing department were thinking along the lines that
anything better than the cassettes that most of the fans were listening
to would be sellable, so why spend real money doing as decent job on the
conversions? Plus, in 1987, CD's were still NEW!!!! and SHINY!!!!, so
would, at least initially, sell easily, no matter what their real
shortcomings were.

Don't forget, the company doing the '87 reissues had very little
connection with the performers, so were unlikely to have them or even
George Martin on the phone moaning about the quality of the remastering
until it was too late.

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Tciao for Now!

John.